- Stagonopleura oculata
Emblema oculata
Identification
12 cm (4¾ in)
Male
- Black lores
- Narrow black ring encircling eye
- Red ear-coverts
- Olive-brown head and upperparts with fine black barring
- Red bill
- Crimson rump and upper tail coverst
- White spots on flanks
Breeding female: Paler ear patch and bill
Immature lacks white flank spots and the red ear-coverts; black bill
Distribution
Found only in Western Australia.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
An older Juvenile, one tiny red spot on ear-coverts and one dark breast spot
Photo by Tiger1
Albany, Western Australia, January 2017
Photo by Tiger1
Albany, Western Australia, January 2017
Coastal thickets and swampy heathland; dense shrubby areas in cool, wet evergreen forest. They also turn up in gardens.
Behaviour
Diet
Its diet consists of grass seeds, small insects and spiders.
Breeding
They make a bottle shaped nest from green grass. The clutch consists of 4-6 white eggs which are incubated for 14 days by both adults. The young fledge in about 21 days. No other pair is allowed to nest within 100 meters.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved January 2017)
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Red-eared Firetail. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red-eared_Firetail
